I'm too busy playing games to play games

[Ayen]

How many games are you playing in your backlog that are keeping you from the games you want to play because you haven't played said game you're playing right now before and you want to play that game before you can play this game and that game--? Oh no I've gone cross eyed.

When did playing games because such a chore?

Discuss.

[Shauna]

When you make it a job, it becomes a chore.

I don't find playing video games a chore at all.

[Pike]

Video games aren't a chore

Although currently WoW is probably keeping me from playing other games but that's okay because WoW is top tier right now and I don't even care. So long as I'm having fun!

[Freya]

I play WoW 3 days a week cause of my raid schedule. Otherwise I am too busy. And if the boyfriend didn't make me raid as he's my raid leader, I wouldn't be playing that either.

I got too much trout to do. I have a huge backlog. but right now I just really want luigi's mansion for the 3DS.

Being an adult is hard. What really messes me up is my commute.

[Pumpkin]

I played through my backlog for my games list! Although I am playing a few now and then I have my game exchange thingy to do

[escobert]

this doesn't happen to me. I don't usually buy new games and I'll just play whatever I feel like playing. Of course only about 10% of the games I play have much of a story or anything of the sorts.

[Del Murder]

Playing games does not keep me from playing games. Taking care of my kids and having a full time job keeps me from playing games. Though I will admit that getting back to Type-0 does feel like a chore. I can't figure out what it is about that game because on the surface it seems pretty good, but I just have no motivation to play it. Playing various PS1 and SNES RPGs on my PSP, however, is really fun and I wish I could do it more. I have like 5 or 6 stacked up to play.

[Ayen]

Video games aren't a chore

You'd be surprise how many people I know act like it is:

Friend: Stop it, you're making me want to play X game.
Me: Well, why don't you?
Friend: Because I still need to get to Y and Z!

[Shauna]

That's not chore-like. That's just having too many games on the backlog-like. The aim is always to reduce the backlog (will never happen), not add to it (will always happen)!

A chore is something you have to do, and you don't particularly enjoy doing it. Something that is entertainment should never be a chore.

[Ayen]

That's not chore-like. That's just having too many games on the backlog-like. The aim is always to reduce the backlog (will never happen), not add to it (will always happen)!

A chore is something you have to do, and you don't particularly enjoy doing it. Something that is entertainment should never be a chore.

kk, so maybe "chore" is the wrong word to use. It was just the first thing to pop into my head.

[Mirage]

Periodically, i make rules such as "finish two games for every new game i buy". Even with that, my backlog just keeps growing.

[Madame Adequate]

I have way more games than time to play them, but oh well. I'm sure at some points in the next decades of my life there will be lulls, then I can catch up!

[Ayen]

I hear ya. I'm running out of space in my room to be honest.

[Chibi Youkai]

Work and Swtor and keeping me from playing other games. Raid twice a week on the pub side, and trying to get a raid team together on the imp side. And the bf keeps trying to get me to join another raid team with people that are truly serious about it. And that's on top of a job where I routinely have to travel for a week or three at a time.

[Pike]

Re: the people in this thread mentioning MMOs: I never understood this obligation to raid thing; I see it all the time on Twitter and I don't quite get it. I was big into progression raiding in WoW back in the day and my guild loved me but when I got bored of it I just dropped it without a qualm. No big deal.

When I play WoW it's cause I want to play it, not because I have to raid or w/e. When I get bored of it I unsub. But apparently that's weird? Oh well.